Anyway...Everything is up and running and now I inserted the XP disk into the DVD-ROM drive and booted with disk.
The black screen appears saying press any key to begin setup!
I press any key and it begins to do stuff...detecting stuff and things like that....but since the HDD is full..I need to reformat it...how on earth do I go about doing this?????

you should see a screen asking to select a partition, select the partition listed and then delete it, do the same for any other partitions you have then tell it to format the partition (drive). when its done formating it will reboot and begin installing xp.

I will attempt to clean it!
I guess I might have to transfer the data to a new disk..I hope I wont have to do this

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wait? your trying to keep the data you have on the drive?

if thats your goal then you are talking about setting up partitions but a 160gb drive is not that big to be partitioning off sections. to be honest anyone should have no less than 250gb in my opinion. why dont you buy another 160gb drive and set windows up on that and then use the drive you have as a secondary drive which can be plugged in and used as is without needing to do anything to it. this would give you 320gb of hdd space which is more reasonable amount. maybe i missed it but where did this drive come from if it is full of data? does it have an operating system on it?